NEW YORK (AP) — Beleaguered by a continuing influx of asylum seekers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is further tightening shelter rules by limiting adult migrants to just 30 days in city-run facilities — to help ease pressures on the city's already struggling shelter system and perhaps ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the U.N. chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet. This year, the alarm rang louder and more ominously, and the message was even more pressing: Wake up and take action — right ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Inside the U.N.'s gates, world leaders use the spotlight to talk — to each other and the entire planet. Outside, across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies take matters into their own hands at a swirl of cocktail parties, meetings and ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed a bill requiring people selling their homes to disclose whether their properties have been flooded or are at risk for future flooding.
The new law comes as inland areas in the state have become more vulnerable to flooding, with ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished.
Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his planned Proustian ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Afaa Michael Weaver has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets. Weaver, whose books include "Spirit Boxing," "A Fire in the Hills" and "City of Eternal Spring," will receive $100,000.
The Stevens prize was ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday that his country will never give up its right "to have peaceful nuclear energy" and urged the United States "to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion" that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Addressing the annual ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A package containing several thousand dollars worth of fentanyl was discovered inside the New York City day care center where a 1-year-old child died from a toxic opioid exposure last week, police and city officials said.
The owner of the day care center, however, maintained ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince William got a first-hand look at the waters of New York City on Monday on a visit to an oyster reef restoration project, after arriving in the United States for an environmental summit connected to a global competition for solutions to climate change ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief said Monday he asked to meet Iran's president on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to try to reverse Tehran's uncalled for" ban on "a very sizable chunk" of the agency's inspectors.
Rafael Grossi stressed that the Iranian government's ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Iran's president on Monday denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, even as the United States accuses Iran of not only providing the weapons but helping Russia build a plant to manufacture them.
"We are against the war in Ukraine," President ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Days before potentially crossing paths with Russia's top diplomat at the United Nations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Monday that the world body needs to answer for allowing his country's invader a seat at the tables of power.
"For us, it's very important ...
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents committed Monday to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more, the White House said.
The adoption of the Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation was completed Monday evening ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders of a world fractured by war, climate change and persisting inequality gather under one roof Tuesday to hear the U.N. chief summon them to take united action on humanity's huge challenges – and to start delivering their own assessments on the most global of ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Monday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on today, Tuesday.
WHAT HAPPENED AT AND AROUND THE UN ...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told a packed Broadway theater full of big-name stars hosting a fundraiser in his honor that he was running for reelection because Donald Trump was determined to destroy the nation.
Democracy is at stake, he told the audience at the Lunt-Fontanne ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural ...
By BRIAN SLODYSKO and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is getting some big-name fundraising help Monday from Broadway's top stars.
With members of the Writers Guild of America and actors from SAG-AFTRA on strike, Biden is avoiding ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that follows similar pauses over the weekend by "The Drew Barrymore Show," "The Talk" and "The Jennifer Hudson ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it was Russia's war in Ukraine. Throughout it all, the perils of climate change, poverty and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
As ...